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Believed to have substantial problems due to ASM 5 being required. ASM5 has a tentative release date in march, with a current beta version and possibly another beta later.
maven-compiler-plugin
plexus-compiler has adaptations branch MCOMPILER217, but error prone IT fails on m-c-p. https://code.google.com/p/error-prone/issues/detail?id=224
maven-surefire-plugin
Running forkMode=never was fixed in 2.17 (unreleased as of yet). Building surefire on jdk8 requires using the -Dverifier.forkMode=once option (due to maven-verifier embedded mode issue).
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